The Rust Standard Library and tooling have improved a lot over the years. Since February 2018, the Rust ecosystem has become quite wide and multifaceted. Four domain working groups have been created, each covering one of the main application areas. These areas were already fairly mature, but this development allowed them to improve even further. In the coming years, we will see the introduction of other domain working groups as well.
It's not an easy task to develop a high-quality and cost-effective application, even after learning a language as a developer. To avoid reinventing the (presumably low-quality) wheel, you as a developer should use a high-quality framework or some high-quality libraries that cover the kind of application you are going to develop.
The purpose of this book is to guide you as a developer to choose the best open source Rust libraries available for developing software. This book covers several typical domains, each using different libraries. Because some non-standard libraries are useful in a number of different domains, it would be quite limiting to present them as confined to a single domain.
In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:
- Understanding the different editions of Rust
- Understanding the most important recent improvements made to Rust
- Understanding domain working groups
- Understanding the kind of projects that we will cover in this book
- An introduction to some useful Rust libraries